Month: March 2013

This morning, Karl (a professor who teaches both HCI and Information Architecture) handed me a semi-recently published textbook (2012) that he said he thought might be able to finally serve as a comprehensive text book that could be assigned to students in the program where he teaches. I looked at the book with a lot…

Garrick VanBuren, a UX consultant, seminal member of the UX Community in Minneapolis and all around SmartGuy has just launched a subscription based newsletter called Design for Leadership. Folks who subscribe before April 1 will receive a $50 discount. Check it out here: Design for Leadership

A couple weeks ago I started using Last Pass in an attempt to improve the security of my passwords. (It’s software where you have one password to login to it and then it automatically logs in to your various sites/apps for you. So far it works better in theory than in practice, but I do…

Ever since the advent of the “mega menu” navigation I’ve felt that Information Architecture as a discipline has dropped the ball on defining navigation approaches in a systematic way. I think this may in part have happened around the time that pattern libraries began popping up like mushrooms; perhaps we all thought that any necessary…

I would imagine that anyone likely to stumble on this post has already seen code.org’s fantastic evangelical video, but I’m capturing it here for posterity. I had several reactions, one of which was the old nagging sensation that I really *should* take a basic programming course…and yet, I don’t know that it’s a good idea…

Comfort food gets all the press, but I also indulge in comfort reading (or listening, in the case of audio books). Which is how I came to be searching for Cold Comfort Farm, a delightful book by Stella Gibson that fills the role of mac-n-cheese for the brain nicely. Sadly, I was thwarted in my…